Distinguishing nontuberculous mycobacteria from multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, China

Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 Jun;20(6):1060-2. doi: 10.3201/eid2006.130700.
No abstract available

Keywords: China; MDR TB; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis; nontuberculous Mycobacteria; tuberculosis; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
  • China
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diagnostic Errors*
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics
  • Genes, Bacterial*
  • Humans
  • Mutation
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / diagnosis*
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / drug therapy
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / microbiology
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / drug effects
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / genetics*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
  • Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / drug effects
  • Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / genetics*
  • Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / isolation & purification
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
  • Sputum / microbiology
  • Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / drug therapy
  • Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / microbiology

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S